Hallo Jan, On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Jan Iven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:44 -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > >> Do note that there is some expectation that RHEL 5 will be released late >> 2006. > > Interesting, this certainly would affect release planning for CERN. Any > pointers or insights? > We've been told that RHEL5 <- FC5 <- FC4+rawhide <- FC4. The repository > fork between FC4 and rawhide apparently has already happened. I talked to a Red Hat person at a hardware vendor event two weeks ago. The statements I got: o RHEL5 will be based on FC5 o It will be released rather more than 18 months after RHEL4 because - there aren't all that many new features available yet - the main new feature will be virtualization - this requires a stable Xen 3 to be available for integration - the majority of their (major) customers still mainly use RHEL3, hence no point in creating yet another new release early o If there's pressure for new hardware support or minor new features, they may rather extend the full/deployment support period of RHEL4 instead. That's gossip, of course. However, there are some facts as well: Remembering that RHEL4 beta 1 was available a week after FC3-Test2 and looking at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ , I would not expect an RHEL5 public beta before mid december, and no RHEL5 product before June. I'm afraid you may be in trouble with your deadline. Cheers, Stephan -- ---------------------------------------------------- | Stephan Wiesand | | | | | | DESY - DV - | phone +49 33762 7 7370 | | Platanenallee 6 | fax +49 33762 7 7216 | | 15738 Zeuthen | | | Germany | | ----------------------------------------------------